In 1921 and now in 2019, the respective resignations of Mary Ellen Smith from B.C. cabinet and Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from federal cabinet have exposed the limits of Canadian liberalism.

Female members of Congress wore white in a nod to suffragists during the State of the Union.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
February 15, 2019

Being the media-savvy women that they were, suffragists realized they needed to come up with a meaningful, recognizable brand.

Independent Kerryn Phelps’s roll call of “decency, integrity, humanity” harked back to the women who fought hard for female enfranchisement in the early 20th century.
AAP/Chris Pavlich
October 25, 2018

The kind of climate action outlined by the ubiquitous climate checklists won't be enough.

A memorial by sculptor Margriet Windhausen depicts the life-size figures of Kate Sheppard and other leaders of the Aotearoa New Zealand suffrage movement.
Bernard Spragg/Wikimedia Commons
September 19, 2018

Sylvia Pankhurst's book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?

Members of the Grand Rapids League of Women Voters organized a city get-out-the-vote parade in 1924.
Grand Rapids Herald, Sept. 9, 1924. Image courtesy of the Grand Rapids Public Library.
January 26, 2018

From witch-hunts to the suffragettes, belief in womanly werewolfs has flourished at times when the female gender was under threat. But in contemporary fiction, film and art, werewolf lore is evolving in surprising ways.

Taking a knee during the national anthem isn’t risk-free in the NFL.
AP Photo/Stephen Brashear, File
December 12, 2016